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Book 3 Ch 5
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Natural material that is used by humans and animals. | Natural Resource |
| Natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which it is consumed. | Renewable Resource |
| A resource that forms at a rate that is much slower that the rate it is consumed. | Nonrenewable Resource |
| A process of recovering valuable or useful material from waste or scrap. | Recycling |
| Natural resource that humans use to generate energy. | Energy Resource |
| A nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago. | Fossil Fuel |
| A liquid mixture of complex hydrocarbon compounds. | Petroleum |
| The type of carbon found in most fossil fuels. A type of mineral. | Hydro-carbons |
| Petroleum. Avery valuable resource . | Crude Oil |
| a nickname for crude oil | Black Gold |
| a gasous mixture of hydrocarbons | Natural Gas |
| a fissil fuel that formsundergrong a parcley decomposed plant materials | Coal |
| a rock that allows fluids through | Permeable Rocks |
| the prosses in which rocks are smashed andplants are stripped | Strip Mining |
| rain that has high concentrations of acid | Acid Rain |
| a photo chemical haze | Smog |
| an energy released by fission or fusion | Nuclear Energy |
| nuclear radieoactive atoms are split in two | Fission |
| the joining of two nuclei | Fusion |
| the energy when a chemical compound reacts to new compounds | Chemical Energy |
| the energy recieved by the earth | Solar Energy |
| panels with wired solar cells | Solar Panels |
| dark colored boxes | Solar Collectors |
| the use of a wind mill | Wind Power |
| energy produced by falling water | Hydroelectric Energy |
| can be a sourse of energy | Biomass |
| a mixture of gasoline and alchol | Gasohol |
| the energy produced by heat | Gethermal Energy |
| melted rock | Magma |
| not ural vents | Geysers |
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